But it wasn’t all acting, as NIGEL HAVERS says he struggled during steamy scenes as the male escort — and the ex Charmer actor (below with co-star Fiona Fullerton) even opened up about off-screen romps.

On Corrie, he warned former co-star SUE NICHOLLS, who plays Audrey Roberts, he might get aroused when they had to get intimate, following advice from SIR ROGER MOORE.

Nigel said: “Sue is a very good kisser if I may say. She is the most wonderful woman.

“Roger Moore always told me that he would say to the girl before a sex scene, ‘I want to apologise now if I get an erection’, then he would say, ‘And if I don’t . . .’ I said that to Sue, she laughed out of bed.”

Nigel told Piers Morgan on Life Stories, on ITV at 9pm tomorrow: “My parents had a flat they did not use. There was one weekend . . . I don’t know how many people were in that bed — about three or four